I may suggest i the way of theory that language behavior universally divides into “programming”, which has to do with listening, formulating, and learning, and is an underlying cognitive process in our humanity, and “scripting” that involves instructions discerned from each language’s “language culture”, which starts with the culture between mother and child and family and moves outward to expanded social circles. In that view:

–What mothers impart to children as they are listening may well determine predispositions throughout life. I don’t think we can pin that (yet) but we know infants may not have a specific look for listening — life is life, not a classroom — but we know they’re listening, “taking statistics”, and with programming learning language as they hear it and figure it out.

–What Mr. Oktar refers to as “mass psychology” may involve the internalized cultural programming (not yet scripting) predisposing the adult to adoption of a proffered script that seems favorable to survival _even if it is not so_. That’s where many Germans found themselves in 1933 and where Hungarians today within the Jobbik Party find a similar voice. This gets closer to home with less hate assumptions, mine about aristocracy and genius, and about which I have to like, Mr. Oktar’s about bloodline, conventional and traditional clerics about intellectual lineage, and so on.

We all have our pride.

If what is private and prized — I think every person has some cause for that element in self-concept and self-esteem — becomes communal, deeply contemptuous of others, and, right on that path, destructive for others less concerned with the concerns of the zealot, then that very early area in language uptake — programming first, then scripting — needs work, and the work is woman’s work, the work of the one unconsciously and unselfconsciously teaching her infant how to think and speak.

I dread the computer’s getting ahead of the human story in language behavior, but for the sake of diminishing conflict that has its life first in the “mouth – ear – mind – heart” system, we would do well to pay attention to this area in which infants, soon to be children, later teenagers, and adults first assemble their social world, its manner of communicating, and the base-level attitudes and beliefs that may accompany them on their journey to the end of their own days.

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